In The Willow Tree, Elan Carson spins a picturesque tale filled with torn emotion. We meet our young protagonist at the impressionable age of fourteen when life is anything but tender. Recurring abuse at the hands of her step-father are mingled with the image of...

The Killing Game - Part One - The Blood Negotiators (The Killing Game Series) (Volume 1) by The Black Rose takes us into the New York division of the FBI. Ives, the Director, must investigate the woman that he has waited a lifetime to find...

The Reach of Children by Tim Lebbon is uniquely unlike any of Lebbon’s other books that I have read. Not a horror story, The Reach of Children is a tragically poignant study of a preteen boy and his father as they try to cope with...

Joe has always lived a somewhat interesting life. From the moment of his birth, his grandmother has been convinced that there is something special about him. In fact, she attempted to convince everyone she met of his importance. But there are far more important things...

The Caterer's Husband by Molly Taggart tells the story of Aaron Mitchell, a high school soccer coach who is having trouble dealing with his wife’s new career. They have had a comfortable, traditional marriage up to the point when she decides to run a catering...

Dorothy Koomson's The Woman He Loved Before is one of those stories that you might read about in your local newspaper. Libby Rabvena and Jack Britcham didn't have that 'first love-sparks flying' in a good way upon first meeting. He was a jerk and she...

The Conditions of Love by author Dale M. Kushner is captivating from the start. Eunice has a tough life. Her mother is borderline nuts, a movie star addict, and a manicurist. Things finally start to settle down and have some semblance of normalcy when Sam,...

The Way Up by Ward Jones is the story of John Howard who has been fired from a legal firm and is without a job. He works at different places to make ends meet and flits in and out of relationships, finally landing up with...

The Beadmaker is generally a fast paced novel cataloging the effect of incest in Georgie’s life. Georgie, or Georgina, returns to the UK after many years. She is reunited with her dysfunctional family when she attends her grandfather’s funeral. According to Ms. Hemingway, she is...

The Little Bastards is a coming of age novel written by Jim Lindsay. It's set in Willamette, a small town in Oregon, during the 1950s. The reader first encounters the narrator, Sonny Mitchell, when he's just turned fourteen and it's late summer. He and his...